Address:

Department of Speech Communication
110 Terrell Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-3262
706-542-3245 (fax)
ccondit@arches.uga.edu

• Idaho State University, BS, Speech 1977, Highest Honors
• University of Iowa, MA,1980; PhD, 1982, Rhetorical Studies

• Professor, University of Georgia, 1994-
• Visiting Professor, University of New Orleans--Innsbruck, Austria Study Abroad Program, Summer 1998
• Associate Professor, University of Georgia, 1989-1994
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Spring 1989 Assistant Professor, Dept of Speech Comm., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, 1985-1989 (received prom. & tenure)
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans 1982-1985

• The use of rhetorical analysis to explore the role of public interests: address in processes of social change and stability, with particular focus on issues of human reproduction, especially with regard to the impact of genetic technologies.

• National Communication Association Distinguished Scholar (Elected 2002)
• Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor, Spring 2001
• Article of the Year Award, 2000, Communication Apprehension and Avoidance Division of the National Communication Association for "Culture and Biology in Human Communication."
• UGA Research Professor, 1999-2004
• Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award, 1998
• Golden Anniversary Monograph Award, 1997, National Communication Association (co-recipient, with co-authors Hasian and Lucaites)
• Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address, SCA 1994 (for Crafting Equality, with J. Lucaites)
• Creative Research Medal, UGA 1993
• Idaho State University Professional Achievement Award, 1992
• Humanities Center Fellowship, University of Georgia, 1991-92
• Fellow, Institute for Behavioral Research, University of Georgia, 1990-1991, 1998-present
• List of Teachers Rated Excellent By Their Students, Spring 1987, Univ. of Illinois
• American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant, 1985
• Douglas Ehninger Teaching Award (co-recipient), 1982

• "Race and Public Communication about Human Variation," National Institutes of Health: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, National Center for Human Genome Research. June 2001-May 2004.  $903,176 (funded). Principal Investigator. 5 R01 HG02191-02.
• "Communicating Genetics Information to the Lay Public." $778,000. Centers for Disease Control, October 1999-August 2003. (funded). Local P.I.; project Co-investigator. Roxanne Parrott is the submitting P.I.
• "Using Presentation Software in Business and Professional Speaking," OISD, UGA, Fall 1999. $24,993. (funded).
• "Empirical Study of Change in Public Genetic Discourse" National Institutes of Health, Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project, National Center for Human Genome Research. ($104,683) funded, completed, Principal Investigator.
• Senior Faculty Research Grant, UGA, January 1995 ($2850)
• OID Grant, $1500.00 for multi-media revision of SPC 101
• Study in a Second Discipline Fellowship, UGA 1993-1994 (included a year's leave and research funds to support graduate and undergraduate course work and laboratory work in genetics)
• Kaltenborn Foundation Grant, $1500.00 (with Ann Selzer), 1982-1983

• National Communication Association (Life Member)
• Short Course Selection Committee 1986-88, 1992
• Nominating Committee 1989, 1995
• Winans-Wichelns Award Committee, 1995-98
• Chair, Women's Caucus 1987
• Publications Board Representative, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, 1990
• Chair, Nominating Committee, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, 1991
• Chair, Nominating Committee, Public Address, 1992
• Council of Doctoral Granting Institutions
• Women's Caucus, Nominating Committee, 1992, 1998
• Rhetoric & Communication Theory Award Committee, 1997-99 (Chair, 1999)
• Golden Anniversary Award Committee
• Southern Speech Communication Association (Life Member)
• Chair, Nominating Committee, Public Address 1984
• Secretary, Public Address Division 1984
• Representative to NCA Nominating Committee, 1991
• Nominating Committee-1992, 1993
• American Society for Human Genetics
• Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (Life Member)
• National Society of Genetic Counselors (Associate Member)
• Affiliate, Women's Studies Program, UGA, 1990-

• Co-editor (w/Bonnie Dow), Critical Studies in Media Communication
• Co-editor (w/Bonnie Dow), Women's Studies in Communication, 1998-2001
• Criticism and Review Editor, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 1995-1998
• Series Co-Editor, Rhetoric, Guilford Press, 1994-2001
• Associate Editor/Editorial Board: Women's Studies in Communication, 1994-97; Quarterly Journal of Speech 1986-1992; Communication Monographs, 1986-1989; Southern Speech Communication Journal,1984-1986; Communication Theory 1989-1992; Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 1997-
• Referee: College English, JACR, Western Journal of Speech, Symbolic Interaction, Journal of Communication, Urban Geography, International Journal of Conflict Management, Communication Studies, Women's Studies International Forum, Political Communication, Hypatia, Sociology of Health and Illness, Cultural Studies, Public Understanding of Science, Science Communication
• Reviewer: Central States Rhetorical Criticism 1985; NCA Rhetorical and Communication Theory 1994; Women's Caucus; Ablex Books, Indiana University Press, Wayne State University Press, Southern Speech Communication Association, Waveland Press, University of Alabama Press, University of Minnesota Press.

• Undergraduate--Rhetoric (oral and written composition; expository and argumentative), Persuasion, Rhetoric and Communication Theory (survey), History of Rhetoric (survey), Political Communication, Rhetorical Criticism, Organizational Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Communication in Human Society, Basic Public Speaking, Honors Public Communication (including special team taught section on social impact of genetic research) Business and

Professional Communication
• Graduate--Rhetorical Criticism, Contemporary Public Discourse, Critical Analysis of Corporate Advocacy, Rhetorical Theory, Political Communication, Seminar in Rhetorical Studies: Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture. Foundations of Rhetorical Theory, Democratic Discourse: Theory and Practice, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Texts in Context, Rhetoric and Social Change

Guest Editor, Special Issues of Communication, entitled "Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture," vol 11 #2 and Vol 12, #1 (1990).

Condit, C. Decoding Abortion Rhetoric: Communicating Social Change. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

Condit, C. and Lucaites, J. L. Crafting Equality: America's Anglo/African Word. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Parrott, R. and Condit, C. (Eds.) Evaulating Women's Health Messages; A Resource Book, Sage, 1996.

Lucaites, J.L., Condit, C.M. & Caudill, S. (Eds.) Readings in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory. Guilford Press, 1998.

Condit, C. The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Heredity. University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Parrott, R. L, Silk, K, Condit, C.M. (accepted).  Diversity in lay perceptions of the sources of human traits: Genes, environments, and personal behaviors, Social Science and Medicine.

B.R. Bates, A. Templeton, P.J. Achter, T. M. Harris, C. M. Condit, “What does ‘A Gene for Heart Disease’ Mean? A Focus Group Study of Public Understandings of Genetics, American Journal of Medical Genetics (in press).

Condit, C.M., Parrott, R.L., Harris, T.M. (accepted; in press) Lay Understandings of the Relationship Between Race and Genetics, Public Understanding of Science (October 2002).

Condit, C.M., Bates, B. R., Galloway, R., Brown Givens, S., Haynie, C.K., Jordan, J.W., Stables, G., and West, H.M.  (2002). Recipes or blueprints for our genes?  How contexts selectively activate the multiple meanings of metaphors, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88: 303-325.

Condit, C.M., Achter, P., Lauer, I., & Sefcovic, E. (2002). The changing meaning of “mutation”: a contextualized discourse study. Human Mutation, 19: 69-75.

 Condit, C.M. (2001).  What is “public opinion” about genetics?
 Nature Reviews: Genetics, 2; 811-815.

Condit, C.M., Ferguson, A., Kassel, R., Thadhani, C., Gooding, H.C., & Parrott, R.  (2001).  An exploratory study of the impact of news headlines on genetic determinism,"  Science Communication 22 (4): 379-395.  This article was published with a group of undergraduates; additional contriibuting authors include Semil Choksi, Adam Cureton, Neil Edgerton, Katherine E. Fearon, Melissa McNeely, Lesli Rowe, Margaret Snoke, Brent Walker, Christina Chimera and Cody Jones.

Condit, C.M. (2001). Rhetorical formations of genetics in science and society, Rhetoric Review, 20: 12-17.

Condit, C.M. & Condit, D.M. (2001). Blueprints and Recipes: Gendered Metaphors for Genetic Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities 22:29-40.

Condit, CM. A Posthumanist Archaelogical Expedition. POROI, 1 (2001). http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi

Condit, CM, D.M.Condit, & P. Achter. Human Equality, Affirmative Action and Genetic Models of Human Variation. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 4:1 (March 2001): 85-108.

Ramsey, M., Achter, P., and Condit, CM. Genetics, Race, and Crime: An Audience Study Exploring the Effects of The Bell Curve and Book Reviews, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 18 (March 2001)1-22.

Condit, CM. Culture and Biology in Human Communication: Toward a Multi-Causal Model, Communication Education, 49 (2000), 1-18. And response essay, "Toward New 'Sciences' of Human Behavior," same issue 29-35.

Condit, CM. How the Public Understands Genetics: Non-deterministic and Non-discriminatory Interpretations of the "Blueprint" Metaphor. Public Understandings of Science, 8, No 3 (July 1999), 169-180. Featured essay. Translated into Spanish and in press at Quark: Ciencia, Medicina, Comunicacion y Cultura.

Condit, CM. The Rhetoric of Intelligent Design: Alternatives for Science and Religion. Invited Response Essay for special issue on Intelligent Design. Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 1, Winter 1998: 593-602.

Condit, CM, Ofulue, N & Sheedy, K. Determinism and Mass Media Portrayals of Genetics. American Journal of Human Genetics, 62, April 1998: 979-84. And "Reply to Nelkin and Lindee," 63: 663, 1998.

Condit, C.M. In Praise of Eloquent Diversity: Gender and Rhetoric as Public Persuasion. Women's Studies in Communication, Fall 1997, vol 20 #2, 91-116 (accepted by previous editor).

Condit, CM. Hegemony, Concordance, and Capitalism: A Reply to Cloud. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 13 (1996), 382-384.

Condit, CM. Clouding the Issues: The Ideal and the Material in Human Communication. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 14 (1997), 197-200.

Condit, C. & Williams, M. Audience Responses to the Discourse of Medical Genetics: Evidence Against the Critique of Medicalization, Health Communication, 9, #1, (1997), 219-235.

Hasian, M., Condit, C. & Lucaites, J. The Rhetorical Boundaries of 'the Law': A Consideration of the Rhetorical Culture of Legal Practice and the Case of the "Separate But Equal" Doctrine. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 82 (1996) 323-342.

Condit, C. How Bad Science Stays that Way: Of Brain Sex, Demarcation, and the Status of Truth in the Rhetoric of Science. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 26 (1996), 83-109.

Condit, C. M. Contributions of the Rhetorical Perspective to the Placement of Medical Genetics, Communication Studies, (1995) 46, #2, 118-129.

Condit, C. & Williams, M. Gender Differences and Argumentation: A Positional Account of the Reception of Genetics Arguments, Speaker and Gavel, 32 (1994/1995), 1-12.

Condit, Celeste M. Hegemony in a Mass Mediated Society: Concordance About "Reproductive Technologies," Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 11, #3 (September 1994), 205-230.

Condit, Celeste M. Framing Kenneth Burke: Sad Tragedy or Comic Dance?, Quarterly Journal of Speech, February, 1994.

Condit, Celeste. The New Science of Human Reproduction: The Inadequacies of 'Disciplines' for the Understanding of Human Life (Critical Review Essay) Quarterly Journal of Speech, 79 (1993), 232-265.

Condit, C. Two Sides to Every Question: Press Coverage of Abortion. Argumentation, 8, (1994), 327-336.

Panetta, E. and Condit, C. Ecocentrism and Argumentative Competence: Roots of a Postmodern Argument Theory from the Brazilian Deforestation Debate. Argumentation, 9, (1995), 203-223.

Condit, C. The Critic as Empath. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 57 (1993), 178-190.

Condit, C. and Lucaites, J. Malcolm X and the Limits of the Rhetoric of Revolutionary Dissent, Journal of Black Studies, 23 (March 1993), 291- 313. Reprinted in Diversity in Public Communication: A Reader, ed. Anne E. Laffoon and Raymie E. McKerrow (Dubuque, IA: Kendall- Hunt, 1994), pp. 103-123.

Condit, C. Post-Burke. Transcending the Sub-stance of Dramatism," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 78 (August 1992), 349-355. Reprinted in Landmark Essays on Kenneth Burke, ed. by B. Brummet (Davis, CA: Hermagoras Press, 1994).

Condit, C. and Lucaites, J. L., "The Rhetoric of 'Equality' and the Expatriation of African-Americans, 1776-1826," solicited for special issue of Communication Studies, on "Social Movement Studies," 42 (Spring 1991), 1-21.

Lucaites, John and Condit, Celeste, "Reconstructing <Equality>: Culturetypal and Counter-Cultural Rhetorics in the Martyrd Black Vision," Communication Monographs, 57, (March 1990), 5-24. Anthologized in Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, ed. Carl R. Burgchardt (State College, Pennsylvania: Strata, 1995), 457-479.

Condit, Celeste. "Speech as a Liberal Art: Following Leff and McGee," Western Journal of Speech Communication, 54 (1990), 330-345.

Condit, Celeste, "The Birth of Understanding: Chaste Science and the Harlot of the Arts," Chataqua: Are Rhetoric and Science Incompatible?, Communication Monographs, 57 (1990), 323-327.

Condit, C. Within the Confines of the Law: Abortion and Women's Liberty," invited critical review essay on Laurence Tribe's Abortion: the Clash of Absolutes, in Buffalo Law Review, v. 38 #3 (1990), 903-919.

Condit, C. The Rhetorical Limits of Polysemy. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 6 (1989), 103-122. Also anthologized in Critical Perspectives on Media an Society, Eds. Robert K. Avery and David Eason (New York: Guilford Publications, Inc., 1991), and to be anthol. in Horace Newcomb, Television: The Critical View, 5th ed.

Condit, C. Feminized Power and Adversarial Advocacy: Levelling Arguments or Analyzing Them? Journal of the American Forensic Association, 25 (1989), 226-230.

Taylor, Charles Alan and Condit, Celeste Michelle. Objectivity in Mediation; Coverage of Creation/Science. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 5 (1988), 293-312.

Condit C., What Makes Our Scholarship Feminist? A Radical/Liberal View, Women's Studies in Communication, 11, 1988, 6-8.

Condit, C. Democracy and Civil Rights: The Universalizaing Influence of Public Argumentation. Communication Monographs, 54, 1987, 1-18.

Condit, C. Crafting Virtue: The Rhetorical Construction of Public Morality. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 73, 1987, 79-87.

Condit, C. Abortion on Television: The 'System' and Ideological Production, Journal of Communication Inquiry, 11, 1987, 47-60.

Condit, C. and Selzer, J. A. The Rhetoric of Objectivity in the Newspaper Coverage of a Murder Trial. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 2, 1985, 197-216.

Condit, C. The Functions of Epideictic. Communication Quarterly, 33, 1985, 284-299.

Lucaites, J. and Condit, C. M., Reconstructing Narrative Theory: A Functional Perspective. Journal of Communication, 35, 1985, 90-108.

Condit, C. The Contemporary American Abortion Controversy: Stages in the Argument. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 70, 1984, 410-424. Also anthologized in Methods of Rhetorical Criticism: A Twentieth-Century Perspective, 3rd. ed., Bernard L. Brock, Robert L. Scott, and James W. Chesebro (Wayne State University Press, 1990), pp. 371-387 and in Readings on the Rhetoric of Social Protest, Ed. Charles E. Morris III, and Stephen H. Browne, Strata Publishing; State College, PA.

Railsback, C. Condit. Beyond Rhetorical Relativism: A Structural-Material Model of Truth and Objective Reality. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 69 1983, 351-363.

Railsback, C. Condit. Pro-life, Pro-choice: Different Conceptions of Value. Women's Studies in Communication, 5, 1982, 16-28.

Condit, CM, Parrott, RL & O'Grady, B. Principles and Practice of Communication Processes for Genetics in Public Health. In Genetics and Public Health: Translating Advances in Human Genetics into Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Eds. Muin J. Khoury, Wylie Burke, and Elizabeth Thomson (Oxford University Press, 2000), 549-568.

Condit, CM. Women's Reproductive Choices and the Genetic Model of Medicine. In Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction. Ed. Mary M. Lay, Laura Gurak, Clare Gravon, and Cynthia Mynti (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), pp. 125-141.

Condit, CM. The materiality of coding: On rhetoric, genetics, and the matter of life. In Rhetorical Bodies: Toward a Material Rhetoric. Ed. JA Selzer and S Crowley. University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Condit, CM. "The Character of 'History' in Rhetoric and Culture Studies: Recoding Genetics." In Thomas Rosteck, Ed. At the Intersection: Rhetoric and Cultural Studies, (Guilford Press, 1998): 168-185.

Celeste M. Condit and April M. Greer. "The Particular Aesthetics of Winston Churchilll's 'War Situation I." In J. Michael Hogan, Ed. Rhetoric and Community: Studies in Unity and Fragmentation (pp. 167-203). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

Condit, CM. "Gender Diversity: A Theory of Communication for the Postmodern Era," pp. 177-183. In Judith S. Trent, Ed,. Communication: Views from the Helm for the 21st Century. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997.

Condit, C. Theory, Practice, and the Battered (Woman) Teacher. In Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education, ed. Katherine J. Mayberry (New York: New York University Press, 1996). 155-174.

Condit, C. A Right to Life? Reprinted from Decoding Abortion Rhetoric. In Lloyd Steffen (ed.) Abortion: A Reader (Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1996), pp. 45-56.

Condit. C. The Importance of Health Communication for Women in the Era of Genetic Medicine. Proceedings of the SCA Summer Conference on Health Communication, 1995.

Condit, C. Kenneth Burke and Linguistic Reflexivity: Reflections on the Scene of the Philosophy of Communication in the Twentieth Century. In B. Brock, ed. Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought, University of
Alabama Press, 1995, pp. 207-262.

Condit, C. Robert L. Scott. Entry in the Encylopaedia of Rhetoric and Composition, ed. T. Enos, Garland Publishing, New York, 1996.

Wheaton, P. and Condit, C. Charles Lennox Remond: the First Black Abolitionist Orator. In Richard Leeman, African- American Orators, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1996), pp. 302-310.

Powell, K. and Condit, C. Jesse Daniel Ames, in Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925 to the Present: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, ed. K.K. Campbell (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press),1994, pp. 134-146.

Condit, C. "Opposites in an Oppositional Practice," in Sheryl Permlutter Brown and Nancy Wyatt, Eds. Transforming Visions: Feminist Critiques of Speech Communication, Hampton Press, 1993, pp. 205-230.

Condit, C. and Condit, D., "Smoking OR Health: Incremental Erosion as a Public Interest Group Strategy," in R. Heath et al, Eds., Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations, (Erlbaum, 1991).

Condit, C. Replacing Oxymora: Instituting Communication Studies. In Brenda Dervin et al. Rethinking Communication: Paradigm Issues, Ablex, 1990, 154-156.

Bernabo, L. and Condit, C. Two Stories of the Scopes Trial: Legal and Journalistic Articulations of the Legitimacy of Science and Religion. In R. Harriman, Rhetoric, Mass Media, and the Law: Critical Studies of Popular Trials, University of Alabama Press, 1990.

Condit, C. Nixon's 'Fund': Time as Ideological Resource in the Checker's Speech. In Michael Leff and Fred J. Kauffeld, Texts in Context. Davis, CA: Hermagoras, 1989, pp. 219-242.

Condit, C. Richard Milhous Nixon: Partisan Political Persuader. In Halford Ryan and Bernard Duffy, American Orators of the Twentieth Century. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 323-330.

Condit, C. John Cotton: Partisan Preacher. In Halford Ryan and Bernard Duffy, American Orators Before 1900. Westport, CT. Greenwood Press, 1987, pp. 106-113.

Rev. of M. Morange, “The Misunderstood Gene,” Heredity (2002), 88.

"Studying Genetic Popularization," Public Understanding of Science, 10 (2001): 1-5 (Critical Review Essay of Clones and Clones and Genetic Imaginations).

Rev. of Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. By Robert N. Entman and Andrew Rojecki. For Quarterly Journal of Speech, forthcoming.

Rev. of Speaking About Abortion in Women's Studies International Forum, Spring 2001.

Achter, P. and Condit, C. Rev. of Jon Entine's Taboo: Why Black Atheletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It, in American Scientist, 2000.

Condit, C. Rev. of Robert Branham and Philip Foner, Lift Every Voice, in Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1, #3 (1998): 462-464.

Condit, C. Rev. of Herman Cohen's History of Speech Communication, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, May 1996, accepted.

Condit, C. Rev. of An Unfinished Revolution: Women and Health Care in America, ed. Emily Friedman, in Women's
Studies International Forum, vol 18 (3), pp. 378-39.

Condit, C. "The Particularities of Race," rev. of E. Culpepper Clarke's The Schoolhouse Door: Segregation's Last Stand at the University of Alabma, in Communication Quarterly, forthcoming.

Condit, C. Rev. of Carol Tavris, The Mismeasure of Woman, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, (November 1993), 503-504.

Condit, Celeste, Rev. of Kenneth Cmiel, Democratic Eloquence, in the Journal of Historical Education, Fall 1991, pp. 422-425.

Condit, Celeste, Rev. of Daniel T. Rodger's, Contested Truths, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, 75 (1989), 235-238.

Condit, Celeste, Rev. of David Zarefsky's Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1986, 495-496.

“Public Communication about Race and Genetics,” Whitehead Institute Press Seminar, October 2002

“What do Lay People Know About Genetics?” Genetic Literacy and Civic Genetics Meeting,” April 8-9, 2002 at the Hastings Center, New York.

“How to Understand Everything: The Contribution of Critical Methodologies,” The Scheidel Lecture, University of Washington, Spring 2002

“Popular Representations and Interpretations of Genetics,” GENE(SIS) CONFERENCE, Henry Art Museum, Spring 2002

Celeste Michelle Condit, Roxanne Parrott, Tina M. Harris, "Lay Understandings of the Relationship Between Race and Genetics," presented at the "Human Genetic Variation Consortium Meeting," NIH, Bethesda, MD., June 11, 2001.

Celeste Michelle Condit, Roxanne Parrott, Tina M. Harris, "Lay Understandings of the Relationship Between Race and Genetics," presented at the ELSI 10th Anniversary Conference, NIH, Bethesda, MD, March 2001.

Condit et al. “Behavior Genetics and Race,” at the Hastings Center, conference on Behavior Genetics and the Public, Spring 2001.

"The Metaphors of the Gene" Invited lecture, Northwestern University Department of Communication Studies. April 1998.

"Polysemy, Persuasion, and Social Change: The Case of Medical Genetics," the Borcher's Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison. March 1997.

"The Discourse of Medical Genetics," the Auer Lecture, Indiana University, March 1997.

"Lay Audience Responses to Public Messages About Genetics," invited presentation, American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 1997.

"Genetic Medicine and Public Attitudes: An Audience Analysis of Determinism, Discrimination, and Perfectionism." National Center for Human Genome Research, NIH, May 23, 1996.

"Closing Address," invited lecture at the conference, "The Ethics of Genetic Testing: Academic, Insurance, and Health-Care Perspectives," Indiana State University, March 1996.

"The Evolution of Genetalk: From Hereditarianism to Medical Genetics," National Center for Human Genome
Research Internal Seminar, NIH, December 1994.

"The Particular Aesthetics of Winston Churchill's 'War Situation I," plenary lecture, Public Address Conference, October 1994.

"Racial Identity in an Agonistic Culture," invited lecture, American Politics Workshop, University of Chicago, March 1994.

"Act II: Burke or Post-Burke for the 21st Century?" Keynote Address, Kenneth Burke Society Conference, May 1993

"Equality, Morality, and Genes," Address to the DePauw Undergraduate Honors Conference, March 1993.

"The Rhetoric of Reproduction in a Technological Age," invited lecture, University of Kansas, Spring 1992.

"Dominant Ideology, Localism, and Anarchy: Lessons from the American South 1865-1900," and "Rhetoric Against
Deconstruction: The Substance of the Public Vocabulary," presented at the University of Utah, by invitation, January 17, 1991.

"The Argument Over Equality in American Public Discourse," invited for the Scholars Workshop on the Rhetoric of Political Argument, on "Rhetorics as Politics--Discourses Civic and Academic," at the University of Iowa, April 26-28, 1991. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"Rhetoric and the Abortion Controversy: Critical Analysis of Argument and Public Policy," Keynote Speech, Women's History Month, Northern Illinois University, March 1, 1990.

"Prime-Time Abortions: Televisual Transformation of Values" Northern Illinois University, Social Science Research Institute, March 1,1990.

"The Rhetoric of Reproduction in a Technological Age," Humanities Program, International Women's Day, 1990 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

"Reproducing the Species: Choice, Technocracy, and the State in the 1st Century," Drake University Symposium on the Webster Decision, Dec 1990.

"Abortion and the Rhetoric of History," Temple Conference on Discourse Analysis, 1987.

Lay Understandings of Sex/Gender and Genetics: A Methodology Preserving Polyvocal Coder Input, NCA 2002 November, Celeste Condit,* Deirdre Condit, Enid Sefcovic, Carolina Acosta-Alzuru, Sonja Brown-Givens, Cindy Dietz, Roxanne Parrott.
"Re-visioning Feminism: Generations and the Interrogation of History," (A First Vice President's "Highlighted" Exemplary Program), National Communication Association.
"The Intellectual Bases for Diversity" First Vice President's Panel, NCA 1998.
"Scholarship on African American Communication and Culture," NCA 1998.
Condit, C. "Gender Diversity: A Theory of Communication for a Postmodern Era," in the prestigious "At the Helm" Series. Speech Communication Association, Fall 1996.
Condit, C. "The Perils and Pleasures of Historicity: Contested Meanings of the Genetic Code," SCA 1996.
Condit, C. Respondent, "Rhetorical Responses to Oppression: Three Case Studies," SCA 1996.
Condit, C. Respondent, "Outing Science: The Construction of Other in Scientific Discourse," SCA 1996.
Condit, C. Conference Summary, Public Address Conference, Champaign, IL.
General Session: "SCA'S Essence and the Widening Gyre: Unifying Credos," SCA, November 1995.
"Theory, Practice, and the Battered (Woman) Teacher," SCA, November 1994.
"Disclosure: Backlash or Boundary Work?" SCA, November 1994 (with Lynette Long).
Respondent, "Race Trials," panel, SCA November 1994.
Respondent, "African-American Rhetoric," panel SCA November 1994.
Response to Tompkins and Cheney, "Extensions of the Burkeian System," Central States Speech Association, April 1994.
"Argument as Method: Extending its Uses and Limitations," Speech Communication Association National Conference, Miami, 1993.
"Technologically Assisted Procreation: What the Media Tells Women," Speech Communication Association Convention, November 1992.
"Contextual Criticism," with Marouf Hasian, Southern States Speech Convention, April 1991.
Spotlight Panel: Ethnicity and the Media, Southern States Speech Convention, April 1990.
Malcolm X and The Limits of the Rhetoric of Dissent, SCA, November 1989.
Deconstructing Darwin: 'Man' as the Origin of Species, Speech Communication Association National Conference, (hereafter, SCA) November 1988.
Constructing Public Morality on Television: Cagney and Lacey on Abortion, SCA November 1988.
The Martyrd Black Word: The Oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr. 20th Anniversary Commemoration, Atlanta GA, MLK Foundation and SCA (with John Lucaites) March 1988.
Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture, International Communication Association (hereafter, ICA), May 1988.
Abortion and the Rhetoric of History," invited lecture, Temple Conference on Discourse Analysis, Spring 1987.
Rhetoric and Ideology: The Pensacola Abortion Clinic Bombings, SCA November1987.
Ideology and the 'System' in the Production of Abortion Compromise, ICA May 1987.
Richard Nixon's First Inaugural Address (With Jennifer Selby), SCA November 1986.
Equality in the Martyrd Black Vision (With John Lucaites), SCA November 1986.
Liberal Politics and the Aestheticization of Power, SCA November 1986.
Public Discourse and Private Lives: The Case of Abortion Discourse, ICA May 1986.
Families of Discourse, SCA November 1985.
Rhetoric and History in the Contemporary American Abortion Controversy, SCA November 1985.
Quintilian on Rhetorical Narrative: Truth, Beauty, and Power as Correctives to Literary Conceptions of Narrative, International Society for the History of Rhetoric, St. John's College, Oxford, England, August 1985.
Abortion, Women and Religion, Southeastern Women's Studies Conference, March 1985.
Legitimacy and Universal Argument: Abortion and the Roman Catholic Church, SCA November 1984.
Why the Jury Acquitted and the Newspapers Convicted: A Rhetorical Analysis of a Murder Trial. SCA November1984 (With Ann Selzer).
Rhetoric and Social Change in the Contemporary American Abortion Controversy, SCA November 1983.
Myth, Metaphor, Ideographs: The Interaction of Units of Discourse, SCA November 1983.
Abortion Rhetoric, Mellon Colloquium, Tulane University, October 1983.
Social Change and Social Actors: The Arguments of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., Alta Conference on Argumentation, August 1983.
Democracy and Civil Rights: Universalization in Public Argument, Birmingham Conference on Ideology and Public Argument, May 1983.
A Rationale for the Criticism of Political Argumentation, Southern Speech Communication Association Conference, April 1983.
The Rhetoric of the New Right: Ideas and Consequences, Southern Speech Communication Association Conference, April 1983.
A Semiotic Model of Value, SCA November 1982.
The Rise of an Ideograph: The 'Family' in the Ideology of the New Right, Central States Speech Association Conference, April 1982.
The Function of Epideictic: The Power of the Communal Symbol in the Boston Massacre Orations, Southern States Speech Communication Association, April 1982.
Function and Culture in Genre Analysis of Social Movement, Central States Speech Association April 1982.

Sessions organized, chaired, respondent, etc.

Seminar organizer and co-leader: Issues in African-American Rhetorical Studies, SCA 1993
Respondent, Panel on "Feminism and Rhetoric in the Public and Private Spheres," SCA 1989
Respondent, Panel on "Threatening Roe v. Wade: Current Strategies in the Anti-Abortion Movement" SCA 1989
Seminar organizer and co-leader, Post-modernism: Crisis in Criticism? SCA 1988
Respondent, Panel on "Common Sense," Central States Speech Association, 1988
Seminar organizer and co-leader, The Rhetoric of History, SCA 1986
Critique of Competitive Papers in Women's Studies, Southern Speech Communication Association Conference, April 1984

University of Illinois Research Board, 1988, 1989
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipends, 1992-93

Radio interviews with public radio stations in Illinois, Washington, D.C. , Washington, and Philadelphia. Interview of Valerie Palakow for WUGA/Humanities Center program "The Bigger Picture." Interviews to the Los Angeles Times, Ladies Home Journal, CNN/International, AtlantaConstitution and Journal, Lingua Franca, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Georgia Research Reporter, Red and Black, WUGA, Columns, essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

"The Social Impact of Medical Genetics," Kiwanis club, Fall 1994, 1997.

Kimberly Powell (1992), Marouf Hasian (1993), Virgie Nobles Harris (1993), Lisa Flores (1994), Robert Frank (1995), Kim Kline (1996), Diane Miller (1996), Enid Sefcovic (1997), Lynette Long (1997), Sally Caudill (1998), Joe Bellon (1999), Joanna Ploeger-Tsoulos (1999) , Kris Sheedy (2000), John Jordan (2001)

John Delicath (1992), Gretchen Van Wye , Nneka Ofulue (1998), John Jordan (1998)

PhD Committees Served:

Seok Hyung Kim (sociology), David Sutton, Jean DeHart, Beverly Johnson, Melanie Williams (comprehensive examinations only), Raka Shome, Elfriede Fursich (journalism), Anita Brown (CFD), David Scott (journalism), Steve Kogan (CFD), Carolina Alcosta Alzura (journalism), Michele Ramsey, Paul Achter, Caitlin Wills, Kathi Wilson, Patrick Wheaton

Greg Cuddy (journalism), Randy Saisslin, Enid Sefcovic, Allyson Mann (journalism), Greg Sanchez, MargaretDaniels, John Hyatt, Sean Brooks, Ken Rufo

Jessica Brow, Windy Lawrence, Ken Rufo, Kristan Poirot, Christina Morus

Women's Studies Graduate Student Conference, respondent, 1994, 1995.
OID Teaching Workshop: "More than Just the Facts: Giving A Lecture", Fall 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000
Talk with Graduate Students--Job Interviews, October 1995, Department of Speech Communication.
"Building Your Community," closing lecture to the UGA Department of Speech Communication's Graduate
Research Conference, 1996
"How to do a Convention," discussion with Graduate Student Speech Communication Association, UGA Fall 1996
TA Workshop: lecture on teaching "Delivery" Fall 1996
TA Workshop: discussion leader on Oral Critiques of Speeches, Spring 1998
NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar, Rhetoric Area Leader, 2000
Director of Graduate Studies, SPC 2000-2001

Foundation Fellows Selection Committee, Spring 1998
SPC 108 Speech Contest Judge
Lilly Fellows Mentor to Rodney Mauricio (Biology)
"What Does the Public Know About Genetics, Anyway?" Foundation Fellows Dinner Seminar, 19 September 2000
“Race, genetics, and medicine,” Foundation Fellows Dinner Seminar, Fall 2002
Rhodes and Marshall Scholarship Interview Preparation Panels, UGA 2002

Provost’s Ad hoc Committee for Review of the University Awards (2002); OVPR Research Advisory Committee (2002); Chair, Sociology Department Head Search; President’s Faculty Advisory Council 2000-2003; Center for the Humanities and Arts, Executive Board, 2000-2003 (Chair 2002-2003);  University Review Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2000; Advisory Committee for the Search for Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Spring 1998; Tenure and Promotion Advisory Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, 1996-1998, 2002; Chair, Graduate Faculty Appointment Committee, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Graduate College, 1994-95; Program Review Committee, 1994-96;  Departmental Search Committees: Women's Studies, 1990, Dept. of English, Rhetoric and Composition, 1994-95; Department of History, 1998, Department of Philosophy, 1999-2000;Women's Studies Tenure and Promotion  Advisory Committee, 1994 (Chair, 1995).  Dept of Speech Communication: Chair, Rhetoric Committee, Chair, Personnel Committee, Organizer, Dept. Colloquium; University Grievance Committee, 1994, Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Sciences, 1992-93; Chair, Franklin College Awards Commitee, 1991;  Dean's Committee for the Humanities, 1990-92;  Chair, Rhetoric Committee, 1990, 1999-2000, 2002-2004; Chair, Women's Studies Evening Program, 1990;  Chair, Awards Committee (departmental).

NIH ELSI Review Panel, November 2002
University of Illinois Research Board, 1988, 1989
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipends, 1992, 1993